5.  The applicant a Russian limited liability company having its registered office in Irkutsk.
6.  On 26 August 1997 a limited liability company PKG “SVL” (“the SVL company”) signed a fuel supply agreement with the Primorskiy Regional Department of Housing Maintenance and Fuel Supplies (Департамент по жилищно-коммунальному хозяйству и топливным ресурсам администрации Приморского края, hereinafter “the housing department”).
7.  As the housing department did not pay for the fuel, the SVL company sued it for arrears and penalty.
8.  On 23 July 1998 the Commercial Court of the Primorskiy Region awarded the SVL company 8,701,895.73 Russian roubles (RUB) in arrears and RUB 6,330,764.07 in penalty against the housing department.
9.  On 22 April 1999 the Commercial Court of the Primorskiy Region ordered that the housing department pay the SVL company an additional penalty of RUB 2,958,526.20.
10.  On an unspecified date the housing department paid the SVL company RUB 4, 351,143.95.
11.  On 20 January 2000 the Commercial Court of the Primorskiy Region awarded the SVL company RUB 3,907,856.05 by way of penalty against the housing department.
12.  The SVL company submitted three writs of execution to the bailiffs’ service. The bailiffs opened joint enforcement proceedings. They established that the housing department owed in total RUB 9,882,908.24 to the SVL company.
13.  On 8 October 2000 the SVL company sold the debt to the applicant company. The bailiffs recognized the applicant company as the successor of the SVL company in the enforcement proceedings.
14.  On 8 June 2001 the prosecutor’s office of the Leninskiy District of Vladivostok opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion that the writs of execution had been a forgery. On 16 July 2001 the writs were taken away from the bailiffs and attached to the criminal case-file.
15.  On 19 December 2001 the bailiffs discontinued the enforcement proceedings. On 27 March 2003 the Commercial Court of the Primorskiy Region held that the decision of 19 December 2001 had been unlawful and quashed it.
16.  By letter of 5 November 2003, the Ministry of the Internal Affairs informed the applicant company that the criminal case into forgery of the writs of execution had been opened unlawfully. On an unspecified date in 2004 the criminal proceedings were discontinued and the writs of execution were returned to the applicant company.
17.  On 18 October 2004 the Federal Commercial Court of the Far-Eastern Circuit changed the debtor and ordered that the outstanding debt of RUB 9,882,908.24 should be payable by the Primorskiy Regional Government.
18.  On 18 November 2004 the bailiffs’ service opened enforcement proceedings against the Primorskiy Regional Government.
19.  On 23 December 2004 the Commercial Court of the Primorskiy Region allowed the debtor’s request to stay the enforcement proceedings until 1 May 2005. On 19 May 2005 the Federal Commercial Court of the Far-Eastern Circuit upheld the decision on appeal.
20.  On 26 February 2006 the applicant company withdrew the writs of execution from the bailiffs’ service. On 23 March 2006 the enforcement proceedings were discontinued and the writs were returned to the applicant company. On the same day it received RUB 221,826.81.
21.  On 22 June 2006 the applicant company submitted the writs to the financial department of the Primorskiy Regional Government. On 20 September 2006 it received RUB 9,661,081.43.